Andrew Dow

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Tireless railway historian who campaigned for a statue of the engineer Sir Nigel Gresley beside a duck

Having spent his boyhood marvelling at locomotive depots — he was always the
one to ask to test a lever — Andrew Dow became one of Britain’s foremost
railway historians and an indefatigable campaigner for railway preservation.
Most recently he was a driving force behind the controversial proposal to
erect a statue at King’s Cross station of Sir Nigel Gresley, the famous
railway engineer, standing beside a mallard duck.

As vice-chairman of the Gresley Society, which celebrated the great
locomotives designed by the pioneering engineer, it was largely Dow’s idea
that a statue should be erected in his honour. A sculptor was